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In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
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With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.
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Directed by: Asakazu Nakai, Akira Kurosawa, Shôji Ueda
Produced by: Masato Hara, Serge Silberman, Katsumi Furukawa
Composed by: Toru Takemitsu
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